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It has come to my attention that I procrastinate things that I have forethoughts about. I put something on a list. Look at it. Fear the outcome, the time spent, or the unknown…whatever it is…I think about it. As of now, I am erasing the “To Do List” and creating the “Do It Now List.”

With the DIN List, I will not allow myself to THINK. Overthinking stops here. It is useless and it hurts…it doesn’t help. It allows the uncertain to be entertained. It allows us to subconsciously decide to AVOID what it is that needs to be done.

Yes, we HAVE to exercise. It is not a choice. If we lived in the time of the cavemen, we would work off our calories. But, we don’t. We sit for a living. We become slugs for a living.

Just do it. Thanks Nike. They mean don’t think about it. Get it done.

You want chicken tenders for lunch, but you NEED grilled chicken (thanks to Chris Brogan for bringing this to my attention :)). Don’t THINK.

Just eat it. Thanks Weird Al. 🙂 Anyway, food is overrated…we only need it to survive, not to enjoy. Pleasure comes from experiences not taste.

Starting today, throw away your To Do List and consistently work on your Do It Now List and watch your productivity, your health, your accomplishments soar. (Dang you, bald eagle.)

What is on your To Do List that you keep procrastinating? What if you don’t give it a second thought and put it on your Do It Now List? Will you get it done?

Once upon a time, the airwaves were flooded with the next magic pill to make people lose weight. People bought them. People fell for the nonsense…I was one of them.

After many years of riding that roller coaster, it has finally become apparent to the masses that those gimmicks are just that.

So what do you need to achieve?

You need the magic potion that I have for you. Pay careful attention. I am going to give you the recipe that you need to succeed. Not just at weight loss, but at life.

Ready?

Got your pen?

Paper?

Here we go:

You need the following:

Belief

Love

Intention

Vision

Brew those things together and you have the winning combination of ingredients required to make the most of your life.

Belief in yourself. Love of yourself. Soulful intention. And your mind’s eye view of you doing what you do.

That’s it. No pills. No scams. No silly gimmicks. Listening to yourself and loving yourself leads you to success in every aspect of your life. Your body, mind and soul know what you need. All you have to do is listen and obey.

Easy, huh?

If it isn’t, we’ll talk about why it isn’t as easy as it sounds next time.

And in case you are a bald eagle hovering over this site, reading…fitness isn’t about the numbers 🙂

Drop me a line and let me know what key ingredient you are missing from your Success Recipe. Thanks for hanging out and reading my wall…let’s get together on Twitter and Facebook, too!

When we start on a journey, without a destination in mind, we find ourselves lost. Any activity we undertake is that journey. By seeing what we want in our mind’s eye, we see the changes that we need to make so we can make our goals our realities.

Map it out

Just as we would map out our stops and routes on a road trip, we have to map out our writing journeys, our parenting trips, or even our fitness adventures. Imprinting the visual image of our accomplishments imprints our maps in our heads. Carrying this imprint internalizes our intention, as well!

Imprint your vision

When we visualize to materialize, our intentions are internalized and the Law of Attraction is put to work automatically. We know that intentions have to come from the heart, otherwise they are mere words soon forgotten. Setting the image in our minds of our end result and what we need to do to get there makes it second nature. We will then act the way that is necessary to bring us success.

If we want to be successful writers, we have to envision ourselves in all of our glory. We can visualize ourselves in that life and what we are doing, how we are acting, and how we handle our business. The same goes for any occupation or goal. Suppose we want to be super fit and healthy. We have to visualize ourselves as such. We have to see ourselves making decisions that lead to accomplishing that goal.

Live that life

Use those visualizations and imprints to guide your decisions in taking steps toward your goals. If you visualize yourself as a successful entrepreneur, refer to your visualized results and ask yourself is this decision one that your successful self would make? With fitness, we ask ourselves before we delve into that pint of ice cream if it will help achieve our super fit visualization of us.

What are your goals? See yourself living them. How do you act? What do you differently in that image than you do now?

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Not necessarily good ones, either. I have, inadvertently, spent the last month transforming my chaos into cosmos by killing some old Monsters that I hope are gone for good. These old monster habits have kept me from moving forward in my goals.

The new Friends (Helpful Habits) that are replacing said Monsters are poised to take over. One of those new Friends is nutrition. This month, my junk food intake has been almost wiped out and my thinking is all the clearer for it. My whole food intake has tripled and my waist is happier for that, too.

These are just a few of the new Friends I have made this month. We can systematically eliminate the Monsters that hide in our Minds by marking them and taking them out one by one.

We all have habits that hinder us or help us. By looking at our thinking and our actions, we can pinpoint the things that we do that work against our goals. Choose the one that is most detrimental and for one month…ATTACK!!

Attack with a vengeance

Order your cosmos one habit at a time by developing a Counter-Habit in order to eliminate your targeted Monster. Language is important. Instead of trying to get rid of an old habit, try to REPLACE it. Use whatever means you need to remind yourself that you want to do B instead of A. As opposed to stop doing A. Sticky notes, intention setting, journaling are all excellent means to help you focus.

The following month, B will be habit and you can move on to the next Monster on your blacklist. One by one, you will accomplish your goals and Order your Cosmos.

What Monster on your list do you need to take out first? What Counter-Habit will replace it? What steps will help you transform you chaos into your cosmos?

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When we begin reading a story, or writing one for that matter, we begin with fervor and gusto. We are excited to see where it takes us. We read it Mindfully: Aware of the action and suspense that pulls us forward. We live life the same way. In the beginning, all is new and fresh. Our senses are alive and well. We miss nothing.

Yet, when we get to the middle of our story, excitement wanes. Magnetism to it wanes. We skim through to the next interesting part. Skimming through the middle of the book causes us to miss parts of the story that we might have found to be noteworthy.

Living life in the Middles, like reading the Middles, means we take our story for granted and rush through it. Missing pieces means missing our children growing up, or missing a job opportunity, or even missing romantic moments with our spouses/partners.

The Middles doesn’t have to mean that we skim through life. When we make conscious decisions to stop and look around us, to lay obligations to the side for a moment, we slow down our reading. We take in the whole story…children, partners, and jobs. We appreciate what we have. We are awake for the next act and not regretting missed scenes.

Living Mindfully means loving the Middles. It means slowing down and seeing all the characters in our story and appreciating them. It means realizing that now is the best that it can be.

The next time we find ourselves skimming, slow down and read well. See the beauty around us and the beauty of our situations…no matter what they may be.

Living in the now and being Mindful are integral parts of transforming our chaos into cosmos. Let’s love our stories, beginnings, middles, and ends and see the cosmos that appear before us.

The Law of Attraction is simple: Like attracts like. Whether good or bad.

If we want to attract good, the decision is ultimately ours.

What kind of like are you attracting?

How we talk is a manifestation of what we think. How we act is a manifestation of how we talk. Why not think, talk, and act successfully? (Success is relative, of course, but I love Ralph Waldo Emerson’s definition to the left 🙂 )

Belief is the basis for what we think.

If we believe that we are rock stars, we think, talk, and act as rock stars. If we believe that we are unworthy of status, we elicit behaviors that sabotage our attempts at success.

We are manifestations of our beliefs.

That’s great as long as we believe in the true Soul that we are and not in our own skewed vision of Self.

Does Self stand in our way?

With writing, I often find my Self throwing up resistance (in the form of procrastination by spending too much time on Twitter, my Google Reader, Facebook, etc 🙂 ) at every peek at success(i.e. finishing a piece or making headway on the novel)…my Self is my roadblock.

If beliefs are aligned with the reality of Soul, then Self will not get in the way.

Can we change our beliefs? Yes, by changing what we say and reversing the order of the manifestations mentioned above.

Is it easy?

No. It isn’t easy, but if we are MINDFUL, if we are living INTENTIONally , then we set a course to rewire our hard drives to think in ways that bring about positive change and attract the results we want.

We have to define Self (who are we?). Connect our dots(bring all of our roles to an intersecting point). Connect to Other (family, friends, etc), in order to complete the image of our reality that we want to bring about.

We all have strengths. We all have gifts. We have to listen to Soul and recognize those strengths and gifts. Use positive Self Talk that we may or may not hear consciously (oftentimes, our actions manifest our beliefs more loudly than our words do, but that is another post 🙂 ).

Listen to Soul. Define who you are. Consider your reality. Create it.

Transform your chaos and order your cosmos by seeing Self for its beauty, defining the reality you want, and setting your INTENTION for positive bounty through the Law of Attraction.

What are your Soul gifts? How can you set your intention to make your reality the best reality it can be?

Do you gauge how you feel by the number on the scale? Does it make you feel better or worse?

You know what, Soul does NOT care about that number. Soul delights when it is fed well. Feeding it well involves taking time and energy to nourish it–Soulularly and cellularly. If you spend one week ONE DAY eating the way nature intended (what commercial is that from??), Body will repay you in Soul. You will feel a lightness (even if you haven’t lost anything but sludge) at the end of the day. And if you LISTEN to your body, you will want to do it again the next day.

Listening means giving Body a chance to express itself

You have to ask Body what it needs. And you have to pay attention to the answers. Then, do what it asks. It’s that simple. So often, we run through our day on autopilot that we don’t take time to hear what our bodies are telling us. They need nourishment. Nourishment is not found in the freezer section(unless it is the veggies) or the canned aisle (frozen veggies are more nutritious than canned). Listen to what Body wants and feed it. Not your mouth.

Your mouth is the only thing asking for CHEMICALS

Food scientists have managed to manufacture our foods to the point that what we buy off the shelves isn’t even food anymore. It is a collection of well combined chemicals mixed to give our mouths that “party in the mouth” feeling that Renee Stephens talks about at Inside Out Weight Loss. She contends that aligning your mind with your stomach will allow you to lose weight effortlessly. She is right. If you feed Body according to its NEEDS, then you will stop eating when you are satisfied, not when it is overstuffed. You will eat what makes Body feel good. Sometimes that “party in the mouth” is a difficult invitation to turn down. But, by being MINDFUL (hahaha I love it 😀 ), you can happily decline said invite and rejoice in Body AND Soul when your meal of whole, healthful foods is the host instead the rotten chemicals.

Fitness is how well we let go of extra details and focus on the outcome

If fitness is defined as a state of being fit, it is applicable to more than Body. When we stop minding the numbers, Body and Soul take care of Self. It isn’t just about losing weight or eating healthy. This applies to everything in our lives. Make Mind, Body, and Soul fit by listening and responding accordingly. Be MINDFUL of your actions, as well as your surroundings, and how they make you feel…stick to those activities, people, foods, etc. that make Mind, Body, and Soul feel good.

What is it that you feel when you stand on the scale? Sit down at your laptop? Visit with that whiny friend that never has any good to say? I love to hear from you…how can you get the most out of Mind, Body, and Soul?